On 28-Jan-99 Cristiano Lincoln Mattos wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am migrating a Solaris 2.5.1 box from Sendmail to
> qmail 1.03.. i have had no problems, with delivery to normal
> accounts, up until now. We have a large /etc/aliases file,
> which we want to keep.. so i installed fastforward, to handle
> it. All works fine, except for one problem: if there is an
> account, say, john, and an alias in /etc/aliases called john-hl,
> qmail will deliver it to john, before looking in
> ~alias/.qmail-default. Having a .qmail-hl at ~john is not an
> option, neither is giving up on this style (-l) of aliases we
> have here.
> So, i searched here in the list, and this had been posted
> before. Solution: put mydomain.com:alias-local in virtualdomains,
> and handle it from ~alias/.qmail-local-default. I done this, and
> this is my .qmail-local-default:
> | fastforward -p -d /etc/aliases.cdb
> | forward $EXT2
> This works fine, but for one problem... if i have this sort
> of entry in /etc/aliases:
> alias2: account1,account2,account3
> And i send email to alias2, the fastforward called above
> will work fine, and send email to all 3 accounts. But if i have:
> alias1: account1,account2,account3
> alias2: alias1
> It will give me an error message saying that the mailbox
> alias1 doesn't exist... so, from what i understood, an alias will
> work ok if the destination are normal accounts/logins, but if it
> is another alias, it wont.
>
> Anyone have any help here? I know it's not exactly great
> to have this type of thing (alias2 -> alias1), etc, but we have
> to live with it here, at least for the time being.
>
> Cristiano Lincoln Mattos Recife / Brazil
>
>
>
You're overcomplicating things. Look in the source dir at conf-break.
Vince.
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